enough beef for a month ...

... enough beef for two months

clapham junction by carol weight, and subsequently, tristan forward

stuff at sheffield park station on the bluebell line ... including the 75 year-old cleaning hero, ?chris carter?

time to fly home

dun shoppin

from drawing board to, er, um, drawing board

mannequins looking hot in the old town tonight

the two litre mojito

surfing before sunrise at la barceloneta

http://w20.bcn.cat/Guiamap/Default_en.aspx#x=32340&y=80428&z=4&c=&masc=&filt=&data=&w=1380&h=787

el born ... recommended rehydration station

opposite a truly fabulous pretzel bakery, pretiola in corders ...

i take my hat off ...

... nope, i kneel in reverence to joan tomas a.k.a senor lorenzo's lovely and clever testament to human happiness, glued to two walls on a barcelona demolition site near Santa Maria del Mar

links discovered later later ... after i'd found the street again on barcelona's excellent city map

http://www.flickr.com/photos/troballola/7462975754/in/set-72157630310270458/

http://www.joantomas.net/

http://w20.bcn.cat/Guiamap/Default_en.aspx#x=27601.01&y=83987.71&z=0&c=&masc=&filt=&data=&w=1380&h=830

ye, of course i should have saved one for you, but ...

apropos de nuffinque

back to work monday, then ?

gone south ... back next weekend

... of course, i won't be drinking too much, or over-eating, or talking loudly and slowly to the foreigners ... i'm sure you know me better than i know myself

re-visiting malmesbury ... but only for an hour

brief encounter

friends in high places

alvi, now aged nearly fifteen months

equine stuff at marble arch

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17703290

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2642545

what kind of book reader are you ? via metafilter, of course !

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/08/what-kind-book-reader-are-you-diagnostics-guide/56337/

stuff, chez micawber

a voice from my infancy ... RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IoYdoG_tro

from the east side of north street, (SW)

a bbc radio essay by sarah bakewell about montaigne

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00xj0ys/The_Essay_Montaigne_Sarah_Bakewell/

and a link to her website

http://www.sarahbakewell.com/

and a brief summary of her career in her own words ...

‘I studied philosophy at the University of Essex. I became enthralled by the work of Martin Heidegger and started a PhD on him, but the spell wore off as quickly as it had been cast, and I dropped out to move to London and work in a tea-bag factory.

‘My job was to catch boxes of tea-bags spat at me by a machine, flip them on their sides, and push them in groups of six to the next person on the line. It was only for the first two hours that machine spat faster than I could flip, but they were the most memorable two hours of my life.

‘After this, I worked in bookshops for several years, did a postgraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence, and wrote fiction in my spare time, before landing a job at the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine. There, I spent ten fascinating years as a cataloguer and curator of early printed books. It was while cataloguing that collection that I came across the tales that started me off as a non-fiction writer: odd medical cases, and a mysterious, angry pamphlet by a “Mrs Stewart”, which became the seed of my book The Smart.

‘Since 2002, my main job has been writing. I also teach writing courses in both fiction and non-fiction, curate occasional exhibitions, and catalogue old books for the National Trust.’

yes ! of course montaigne had studied erasmus !

i found out by copying the file containing the whole of montaigne's essays from project gutenberg

transferring it in to microsoft word

and then doing a simple word-search for "Erasmus"

just as well ... because the first reference the computer discovered, in the blink of an eye, was on page 949